Back from Maker Faire

In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made:

Also in the Craft zone was a “postcard machine.” It was a person sitting inside a booth pretending to be a machine. You could select the postcard you wanted and push two dollars through the slot. The person in the booth would make beeping and booping noises and then slip a custom postcard into your hand:

Outside, several people were driving around in mobile muffins:

Not to be outdone, someone had decorated their art car entirely with pens and markers:

I forget where I saw this, but someone had made a Q*bert quilt:

Finally, I enjoyed this art installation about the “newspaper of the future.” It was a standard newspaper machine but had an LCD monitor that showed optimistic headlines:

By the way Wordcamp San Francisco will be on August 16 at the Mission Bay Conference Center.

When I was a little kid, there used to be a big cardboard box in font of the Boudins restaurant that had a hundred or so songs hand written on it and Jukebox written across the top. If you put a dollar in the hole, a hand took it from you. Then the song mysteriously came live right out of the box, sounding somewhat familiar, but not exactly like the original.